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Alai, M., 2014, “Novel Predictions and the No Miracle Argument ,” Erkenntnis, 79: 297–326. (Scholar)
Aliseda, A., 2006, Abductive Reasoning, Dordrecht: Springer. (Scholar)
Almeder, R., 1983, “Scientific Progress and Peircean Utopian Realism,” Erkenntnis, 20: 253–280. (Scholar)
Ankeny, R. and Leonelli, S., 2016, “Repertoires: A Post-Kuhnian Perspective on Scientific Change and Collaborative Research,” Studies in the History and the Philosophy of Science (Part A), 60: 18–28. (Scholar)
Aronson, J.L., Harré, R. and Way, E.C., 1994, Realism Rescued: How Scientific Progress is Possible, London: Duckworth. (Scholar)
Balzer, W., 2000, “On Approximate Reduction,” in Jonkisz and Koj (2000), pp. 153–170. (Scholar)
Balzer, W., Pearce, D., and Schmidt, H.J. (eds.), 1984, Reduction in Science: Structure, Examples, Philosophical Problems, Dordrecht: D. Reidel. (Scholar)
Balzer, W., Moulines, C.U., and Sneed, J.D., 1987, An Architectonic for Science, Dordrecht: D. Reidel. (Scholar)
Barrett, J. A., 2008, “Approximate Truth and Descriptive Nesting,” Erkenntnis, 68: 213–224. (Scholar)
Bird, A., 2007, “What Is Scientific Progress?” Noûs, 41: 92–117. (Scholar)
–––, 2008, “Scientific Progress as Accumulation of Knowledge: A Reply to Rowbottom,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 39: 279–281. (Scholar)
–––, 2015, “Scientific Progress,” in P. Humphreys (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Science, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 544–563. (Scholar)
–––, 2022, Knowing Science, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2023, “The Epistemic Approach: Scientific Progress as the Accumulation of Knowledge,” in Y. Shan (ed.), New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress, London: Routledge, pp. 13–26. (Scholar)
Böhme, G., 1977, “Models for the Development of Science,” in I. Spiegel-Rösing and D. de Solla Price (eds.), Science, Technology, and Society, London: Sage Publications, pp. 319–351. (Scholar)
Callebaut, W. and Pinxten, R. (eds.), 1987, Evolutionary Epistemology, Dordrecht: D. Reidel. (Scholar)
Cartwright, N., 1999, The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Cartwright, N., Hardie, J., Montuschi, E., Soleiman, M. and Thresher, A. C., 2022, The Tangle of Science: Reliability Beyond Method, Rigour, and Objectivity, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Chang, H., 2004, Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2012, Is Water H2O? Evidence, Realism and Pluralism, Dordrecht: Springer. (Scholar)
–––, 2022, Realism for Realistic People: A New Pragmatist Philosophy of Science, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Cevolani, G. and Tambolo, L., 2013. “Progress as Approximation to the Truth: A Defence of the Verisimilitudinarian Approach,” Erkenntnis, 78: 921– 935. (Scholar)
Chotkowski La Follette, M. (ed.), 1982, Quality in Science, Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. (Scholar)
Dilworth, C., 1981, Scientific Progress: A Study Concerning the Nature of the Relation Between Successive Scientific Theories, Dordrecht: Reidel. (Scholar)
Dellsén, F., 2016, “Scientific Progress: Knowledge versus Understanding,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 56: 72–83. (Scholar)
–––, 2018a, “Scientific Progress, Understanding, and Knowledge: Reply to Park,” Journal ofr General Philosophy of Science, 49: 451–459. (Scholar)
–––, 2018b, “Scientific Progress: Four Accounts,” Philosophy Compass, 13: e12525. (Scholar)
–––, 2023, “The Noetic Approach: Scientific Progress as Enabling Understanding,” in Y. Shan (ed.), New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress, London: Routledge, pp. 62–81. (Scholar)
Donovan, A., Laudan, L., and Laudan, R. (eds.), 1988, Scrutinizing Science: Empirical Studies of Scientific Change, Dordrecht: Kluwer. (Scholar)
Doppelt, G., 1983, “Relativism and Recent Pragmatic Conceptions of Scientific Rationality,” in N. Rescher (ed.), Scientific Explanation and Understanding, Lanham: University Press of America, pp. 107–142. (Scholar)
Douglas, H., 2014, “Pure Science and the Problem of Progress,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (Part A), 46: 55–63. (Scholar)
Duhem, P., 1954, The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
Dupré, J., 1993, The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
Elkana, Y., et al. (eds.), 1978, Toward a Metric of Science: The Advent of Science Indicators, New York: Wiley and Sons. (Scholar)
Feyerabend, P., 1962, “Explanation, Reduction, and Empiricism,” in H. Feigl and G. Maxwell (eds.), Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. II. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 28–97. (Scholar)
–––, 1975 [1993], Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge, London: New Left Books; third edition, London: Verso, 1993. (Scholar)
–––, 1984, Wissenschaft als Kunst, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp (Scholar)
Foster, M.H.; Martin, M.L. (eds.), 1966, Probability, Confirmation,and Simplicity, New York: The Odyssey Press. (Scholar)
Garcia-Lapena, A., 2023, “Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deerministic Laws,” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 74: 649–679. (Scholar)
Gärdenfors, P., 1988, Knowledge in Flux: Modelling the Dynamics of Epistemic States, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. (Scholar)
Gavroglu, K., Goudaroulis, Y. and Nicolacopoulos, P. (eds.), 1989, Imre Lakatos and Theories of Scientific Change, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. (Scholar)
Hacking, I. (ed.), 1981, Scientific Revolutions, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Hanson, N.R., 1958, Patterns of Discovery, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Harré, R. (ed.), 1975, Problems of Scientific Revolutions: Progress and Obstacles to Progress in the Sciences, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Hempel, C.G., 1965, Aspects of Scientific Explanation, New York: The Free Press. (Scholar)
Hintikka, J., 1968, “The Varieties of Information and Scientific Explanation,” in B. van Rootselaar and J.E. Staal (eds.), Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science III, Amsterdam: North-Holland, pp. 151-171. (Scholar)
Howson, C. (ed.), 1976, Method and Appraisal in the Physical Sciences: The Critical Background to Modern Science, 1800–1905, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Hoyningen-Huene, P. and Sankey, H. (eds.), 2001, Incommensurability and Related Matters, Dordrecht: Kluwer. (Scholar)
Hull, D.L., 1988, Science as a Process: Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
Jonkisz, A., 2000, “On Relative Progress in Science,” in Jonkisz and Koj (2000), pp. 199–234. (Scholar)
Jonkisz, A. and Koj, L. (eds.), 2000, On Comparing and Evaluating Scientific Theories, Amsterdam: Rodopi. (Scholar)
Kaila, E., 2014, Human Knowledge: A Classic Statement of Logical Empiricism, Chicago: Open Court (Scholar)
Kemeny, J. and Oppenheim, P., 1956, “On Reduction,” Philosophical Studies, 7: 6–19. (Scholar)
Kitcher, P., 1993, The Advancement of Science: Science without Legend, Objectivity without Illusions, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Kitcher, P., 2001, Science, Truth, and Democracy, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Kleiner, S.A., 1993, The Logic of Discovery: A Theory of the Rationality of Scientific Research, Dordrecht: Kluwer. (Scholar)
Krajewski, W., 1977, Correspondence Principle and the Growth of Knowledge, Dordrecht: D. Reidel. (Scholar)
Kuhn, T.S., 1970, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962. 2nd enlarged ed. (Scholar)
–––, 1977, The Essential Tension, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
Kuipers, T., 2000, From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism, Dordrecht: D. Reidel. (Scholar)
–––, 2019, Nomic Truth Approximation Revisited, Cham: Springer. (Scholar)
Lakatos, I. and Musgrave, A. (eds.), 1970, Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Laudan, L., 1977, Progress and Its Problems: Toward a Theory of Scientific Growth, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. (Scholar)
–––, 1984a, Science and Values: The Aims of Science and Their Role in Scientific Debate, Berkeley: University of California Press. (Scholar)
–––, 1984b, “Explaining the Success of Science: Beyond Epistemic Realism and Relativism,” in J.T. Cushing, C.F. Delaney, and G.M. Gutting (eds.), Science and Reality, Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, pp. 83–105. (Scholar)
–––, 1987, “Progress or Rationality? The Prospects for Normative Naturalism,” American Philosophical Quarterly 24, 19–31. (Scholar)
–––, 1990, Science and Relativism, Berkeley: The University of California Press. (Scholar)
Laudan, L., et al., 1986, “Scientific Change: Philosophical Models and Historical Research,” Synthese, 69: 141–224. (Scholar)
Leplin, J. (ed.), 1984, Scientific Realism, Berkeley: University of California Press. (Scholar)
–––, 1997, A Novel Defense of Scientific Realism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Levi, I., 1967, Gambling With Truth: An Essay on Induction and the Aims of Science, New York: Harper & Row; 2nd edition, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1973. (Scholar)
–––, 1980, The Enterprise of Knowledge, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. (Scholar)
–––, 1985, “Messianic vs Myopic Realism,” in P.D. Asquith and P. Kitcher (eds.), PSA 1984 (Volume 2), East Lansing, MI: Philosophy of Science Association, pp. 617–636. (Scholar)
Lombrozo, T., 2016, “Explanatory Preference Shape Learning and Inference,” Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20: 748–759. (Scholar)
Longino, H., 2002, The Fate of Knowledge, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
Martin, B. and Irvine, J., 1983, “Assessing Basic Research: Some Partial Indicators of Scientific Progress in Radio Astronomy,” Research Policy, 12: 61–90. (Scholar)
Maxwell, N., 2017, Understanding Scientific Progress: Aim-Oriented Empiricism, St. Paul, MN: Paragon House. (Scholar)
Mizrahi, M., 2013, “What is Scientific Progress? Lessons from Scientific Practice,” Journal of General Philosophy of Science, 44: 375–390. (Scholar)
Moulines, C.U., 2000, “Is There Genuinely Scientific Progress?,” in Jonkisz and Koj, 173–197. (Scholar)
Mulkay, M., 1975, “Three Models of Scientific Development,” The Sociological Review, 23: 509–526. (Scholar)
Nersessian, N., 2022, Interdisciplinary in the Making: Models and Methods in Frontier Science, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. (Scholar)
Nickles, T. (ed.), 1999, Scientific Discovery: Case Studies, Dordrecht: D. Reidel. (Scholar)
Niiniluoto, I., 1980, “Scientific Progress,” Synthese, 45: 427–464. (Scholar)
–––, 1984, Is Science Progressive? Dordrecht: D. Reidel. (Scholar)
–––, 1987, Truthlikeness, Dordrecht: D. Reidel. (Scholar)
–––, 1995a, “Is There Progress in Science?,” in H. Stachowiak (ed.), Pragmatik, Handbuch pragmatischen Denkens, Band V, Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, pp. 30–58. (Scholar)
–––, 1995b, “Emergence of Scientific Specialties: Six Models,” in W. Herfel et al. (eds.), Theories and Models in Scientific Processes, Amsterdam: Rodopi pp. 21–223. (Scholar)
–––, 1999a, Critical Scientific Realism, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 1999b, “Defending Abduction,” Philosophy of Science (Proceedings), 66: S436–S451. (Scholar)
–––, 2011, “Revising Beliefs Towards the Truth,” Erkenntis, 75: 165–181. (Scholar)
–––, 2014, “Scientific Progress as Increasing Verisimilitude,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (Part A), 75: 73–77. (Scholar)
–––, 2017, “Optimistic Realism about Scientific Progress,” Synthese, 194: 3291–3309. (Scholar)
–––, 2020, “Social Aspects of Scientific Knowledge,” Synthese, 197: 447–468. (Scholar)
Niiniluoto, I. and Tuomela, R. (eds.), 1979, The Logic and Epistemology of Scientific Change, Helsinki: Acta Philosophica Fennica (Volume 30). (Scholar)
Nisbet, R., 1980, History of the Idea of Progress, London: Heinemann. (Scholar)
Nowak, L., 1980, The Structure of Idealization: Towards a Systematic Interpretation of the Marxian Idea of Science, Dordrecht: D. Reidel. (Scholar)
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Oddie, G., 1986, Likeness to Truth, Dordrecht: D. Reidel. (Scholar)
Oddie, G. and Cevolani, G., 2022, “Truthlikeness,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2022 edition), Edward N. Zalta and Uri Nodelman (eds.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2022/entries/truthlikeness/>. (Scholar)
Park, S., 2017, “Does Scientific Progress Consist in Increasing Knoweledge or Understanding?,” Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 48: 569–579. (Scholar)
Pearce, D., 1987, Roads to Commensurability, Dordrecht: Reidel. (Scholar)
Pearce, D. and Rantala, V., 1984, “A Logical Study of the Correspondence Relation,” Journal of Philosophical Logic, 13: 47–84. (Scholar)
Pera, M., 1994, The Discourse of Science, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
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Pitt, J.C., 1981, “Pictures, Images, and Conceptual Change: An Analysis of Wilfrid Sellars,” Philosophy of Science, Dordrecht: D. Reidel. (Scholar)
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Popper, K., 1959, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, London: Hutchinson. (Scholar)
–––, 1963, Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge, London: Hutchinson. (Scholar)
–––, 1972, Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach, Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2nd enlarged edition, 1979. (Scholar)
Price, D. de Solla, 1963, Little Science, Big Science, New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
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Putnam, H., 1975, Mind. Language, and Reality, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
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Radnitzky, G.; Andersson, G. (eds.), 1978 Progress and Rationality in Science, Dordrecht-Boston: Reidel. (Scholar)
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Radnitzky, G. and Bartley, W.W. III (eds.), 1987, Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, and the Sociology of Knowledge, Open Court, La Salle, Illinois. (Scholar)
Rantala, V., 2002, Explanatory Translation: Beyond the Kuhnian Model of Conceptual Change, Dordrecht: Kluwer. (Scholar)
Rheinberger, H. J., 1997, Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. (Scholar)
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–––, 1978, Scientific Progress: A Philosophical Essay on the Economics of Research in Natural Science, Oxford: Blackwell. (Scholar)
–––, 1984, The Limits of Science, Berkeley: The University of California Press. (Scholar)
Rowbottom, D. P., 2008, “N-rays and the Semantic View of Progress,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 39: 277–278. (Scholar)
–––, 2015, “Scientific Progress without Increasing Verisimilitude: In Response to Niiniluoto,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 51: 100–104. (Scholar)
–––, 2023, Scientific Progress, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Saatsi, J. (ed.), 2018, The Routledge Handbook of Scientific Realism, London: Routledge, (Scholar)
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Schäfer, W. (ed.), 1983, Finalization in Science: The Social Orientation of Scientific Progress, Dordrecht: Reidel. (Scholar)
Scheibe, E., 1976, “Conditions of Progress and Comparability of Theories,” in R.S. Cohen et al.$$ (ed.), Essays on Memory of Imre Lakatos, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, pp. 547–568. (Scholar)
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Shan, Y., 2019, “A New Functional Approach to Scientific Progress,” Philosophy of Science. 86: 739–758 (Scholar)
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Sintonen, M., 1984, The Pragmatics of Scientific Explanation, Helsinki: Acta Philosophica Fennica (Volume 37). (Scholar)
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